The "Silverlight Business Application" template bundled with VS2010 / Silverlight 4 uses DataAnnotations on method arguments in its domain service class, which are invoked automagically:
public CreateUserStatus CreateUser(RegistrationData user,
[Required(ErrorMessageResourceName = "ValidationErrorRequiredField", ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(ValidationErrorResources))]
[RegularExpression("^.*[^a-zA-Z0-9].*$", ErrorMessageResourceName = "ValidationErrorBadPasswordStrength", ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(ValidationErrorResources))]
[StringLength(50, MinimumLength = 7, ErrorMessageResourceName = "ValidationErrorBadPasswordLength", ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(ValidationErrorResources))]
string password)
{ /* do something */ }
If I need to implement this in my POCO class methods, how do I get the framework to invoke the validations OR how do I invoke the validation on all the arguments imperatively (using Validator or otherwise?).